Coaching Styles and Their Effects on Athletes

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The purpose of this paper was to review the effects that various styles of coaching
have on athletes. The coach has been said to be one of the most important influences
upon an athlete's motivation (Amorose & Anderson-Butcher, 2007), and I believe
this to be undeniably true. How a coach talks and acts toward an athlete, as well as
how he or she talks and acts in general, has a great effect on the athlete's willingness
to participate, their willingness to better themselves in the sport, their state of mind,
their psychological well-being, their self-confidence, their self-esteem, their feelings
of self-worth, and how they act towards their teammates and opponents. This paper
reviewed several studies performed by various authors which tested how coaching
styles can affect athletes. It was found that coaches who use positive methods of
coaching will more often have athletes who are more intrinsically motivated and
coaches who use negative methods of coaching will have athletes who are more
extrinsically motivated and/ or less intrinsically motivated.